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Sex chromosomes in conflict « Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!

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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Making sense of life as we know it, in the light of evolution. Sex chromosomes in conflict. House mouse (by Wenfei Tong). Have you thought that not all the genes in your body might have the same evolutionary interests? The mouse Y chromosome. Figure from Sho et a. 2014. Showing how much of the mouse Y contains recently evolved, repetitive coding sequences. Why does sex even become linked to these bits of chromosome that do or don’t recombine? Figure from Sho et al. 2014.

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review « Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!

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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Making sense of life as we know it, in the light of evolution. The authors would like to thank…. I’m abysmally bad at acknowledgments sections of papers. I just want to write a quick “thanks guys! But over at Scientist Sees Squirrel. There is a really good post by Stephen Heard. About how to acknowledge criticism. 8220;For critical suggestions and discussion I thank [names]. Not everyone agreed with everything but even that helped (West-Eberhard 2014). The editor should ne...

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Contributors « Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!

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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Making sense of life as we know it, in the light of evolution. She’s currently a postdoc at the UC Davis Genome Center. Working on marine microbial biogeography. She completed her PhD. At Louisiana State University in 2013. When not “biology-ing”, she likes to cook, walk her dog and quote Seinfeld episodes over coffee. Now, as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota, he studies the symbiosis between legumes and nitrogen-fixing bacteria. 27 October 2011 at ...

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adaptation « Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!

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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Making sense of life as we know it, in the light of evolution. Octopus are not aliens. But they can be vicious. Combine that with an incredible intelligence, and we should all be worried that cephalopods populations are increasing world wide. As coral reefs are dying, cephalopods are booming (likely not a causative correlation). And not just octopus, but also cuttlefish, and 35 other species of genera, spanning all major ocean regions. Why are they expanding in number?

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Junk science « Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!

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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Making sense of life as we know it, in the light of evolution. Birds do it, beetles do it … (Flickr: Henry Burrows. Last spring, the journal. Published a report describing something new under the entomological sun: A genus of tiny cave-dwelling insects, dubbed. In which females, not males, have penises. Literally, a female body ); but in the title, it’s a female penis. Read the headline in the prestigious journal. Most of the stories, even the. It was a complex organ compo...

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Under selection, an endangered species runs low on evolutionary “fuel” « Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!

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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Making sense of life as we know it, in the light of evolution. Under selection, an endangered species runs low on evolutionary “fuel”. A pale-headed brushfinch, Atlapetes pallidiceps. Wikimedia Commons:Aves y Conservación/NBII Image Gallery. Is a conservation success story, or at least the first chapter of one. The birds were thought to be extinct, until a 1998 survey [PDF]. Have the brush finches’ rebounded enough to secure their population for the future? Fortunately for...

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How to celebrate Valentine’s Day: A note on the Red Queen and maintaining sexual reproduction « Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!

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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Making sense of life as we know it, in the light of evolution. How to celebrate Valentine’s Day: A note on the Red Queen and maintaining sexual reproduction. This year's Valentine's card of choice. HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! Perfect for Valentine’s Day! Why organisms reproduce sexually is one of the great mysteries in evolutionary biology (I’d like to note that here I’m talking about sex in terms of reproduction. It isn’t a mystery to me why organisms cop...One of the stronges...

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Is epigenetics totally gay? « Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!

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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Making sense of life as we know it, in the light of evolution. Is epigenetics totally gay? 8230; epigenetics is why I love you? Photos from the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archive. I’m gay. I’m also an evolutionary biologist. You could say this particular puzzle is tailor-made to attract my interest. It turns out that there are a number of ways. Basis without being genetic. That a team of biologists at NIMBioS. However, as soon as I secured a copy of the study itself.

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Merchandise « Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!

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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Making sense of life as we know it, in the light of evolution. Have you ever thought that the images on the. Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Header would look great on tee-shirts? Well, we did and now you, too can own a stylish American Apparel tee shirt, or a sturdy coffee mug, printed with our icons and the slogan we’ve shamelessly appropriated from Theodosius Dobzhansky. Subscribe in a reader. Subscribe to our RSS feed. Make sense with us on Facebook. The EEB and flow.